Ning Wang

Publication List Details

Period

1984 - 2009

Number

109

Co-Authors

Adaptive Multi-topology IGP Based Traffic Engineering with Near-Optimal Network Performance (2009)

Ning Wang, Kin-hon Ho, George Pavlou

Abstract. In this paper we present an intelligent multi-topology IGP (MT-IGP) based intra-domain traffic engineering (TE) scheme that is able to handle unexpected traffic fluctuations with...

Chinese medicines as a resource for liver fibrosis treatment (2009)

Feng, Yibin, Cheung, Kwok-Fan, Wang, Ning, Liu, Ping, Nagamatsu, Tadashi, Tong, Yao

Abstract Liver fibrosis is a condition of abnormal proliferation of connective tissue due to various types of chronic liver injury often caused by viral infection and chemicals. Effective therapies...

1D goes 2D: A Kosterlitz Thouless transition in superconducting arrays of 4-Angstrom carbon nanotubes (2009)

Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Hang, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Tang, Zikang, ...

We report superconducting resistive transition characteristics for array(s) of coupled 4-Angstrom single wall carbon nanotubes embedded in aluminophosphate-five (AFI) zeolite. The transition was...

Bending-induced conductance increase in individual semiconductor nanowires and nanobelts (2009)

Han, Xiaobing, Jing, Guangyin, Zhang, Xinzheng, Ma, Renmin, Song, Xuefeng, Xu, Jun, ...

Reliable ohmic contacts were established in order to study the strain sensitivity of nanowires and nanobelts. Significant conductance increases of up to 113% were observed on bending individual ZnO...

Effective leadership in competition (2009)

Zhang, Hai-Tao, Wang, Ning, Chen, Michael Z. Q., Zhou, Tao, Zhou, Changsong

Among natural biological flocks/swarms or even mass social activities, when the collective behaviors of the followers has been dominated by the moving direction or opinion of one leader group, it...

Rapid diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy using High-Resolution Melting Analysis (2009)

Chen, Wan, Dong, Wan, Lin, Xiao, Lin, Min, Murong, Shen, Wu, Zhi, ...

Abstract Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disorder caused by mutations of the survival motor neuron 1 ( SMN1 ) gene. Recently, high-resolution DNA melting...

AtbHLH38 and AtbHLH39 interact with FIT, functioning in control of iron uptake in Arabidopsis (2009)

Ling, Hong-Qing, Wu, Huilan, Du, Juan, Wang, Ning

Arabidopsis was used as a model plant to study the molecular regulation mechanism of iron uptake in strategy I plants and two new iron-regulated bHLH proteins (AtbHLH38 and AtbHLH39) have been...

Bear bile: dilemma of traditional medicinal use and animal protection (2009)

Feng, Yibin, Siu, Kayu, Wang, Ning, Ng, Kwan-Ming, Tsao, Sai-Wah, Nagamatsu, Tadashi, ...

Abstract Bear bile has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. Modern investigations showed that it has a wide range of pharmacological actions with little...

THE FEASIBILITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF APPLYING THE MAIN STREET APPROACH TO PRESERVATION BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA (2009)

Wang, Ning

On the basis of an analysis of some important factors which caused the grim situation of China's historic preservation, this thesis points out the necessity to rethink the relationship between...

A Near-Infrared Spectrometer Based on Novel Grating Light Modulators (2009)

Wei Wei, Shanglian Huang, Ning Wang, Zhu Jin, Jie Zhang, Weimin Chen

A near-infrared spectrometer based on novel MOEMS grating light modulators is proposed. The spectrum detection method that combines a grating light modulator array with a single near-infrared...

Downregulation of miR-133 and miR-590 contributes to nicotine-induced atrial remodelling in canines (2009)

Shan, Hongli, Zhang, Yong, Lu, Yanjie, Zhang, Ying, Pan, Zhenwei, Cai, Benzhi, ...

Aims The present study was designed to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying nicotine's promoting atrial fibrillation (AF) by inducing atrial structural remodelling. Methods and results The...

J4.8 EXPERIMENT OF A WAVELET-BASED DATA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE WITH PRECISION CONTROL (2008)

Ning Wang, Renate Brummer

With the development of computer hardware, observation networks, and numerical weather forecast model techniques, the size of the model data

Genetic Algorithm Based Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Modeling of Chemical Processes (2008)

Jili Tao, Ning Wang, Xuejun Wang

Abstract: A genetic algorithm (GA) based recurrent fuzzy neural network modeling method for dynamic nonlinear chemical process is presented. The dynamic recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is...

Association between Ngb polymorphisms and ischemic stroke in the Southern Chinese Han population (2008)

Lin, Yi, Fang, Ling, Xue, Xie-Hua, Murong, Shen-Xing, Wang, Ning, Wu, Zhi-Ying

Abstract Background Neuroglobin ( Ngb ), one of novel members of the globin superfamily, is expressed predominantly in brain neurons, and appears to modulate hypoxic-ischemic insults. The mechanisms...

Lithium-ion battery incorporating carbon nanostructure materials (2008)

Tang, Zi-Kang, Sheng, Ping, Liang, Qi, Wang, Ning, Chan, Che-Ting

A lithium ion battery is disclosed in which the negative electrode material comprises carbon nanostructures having no dimension greater that 2μm. The battery has a high reversible capacity of the...

Chemokine CXCL12 and its receptor CXCR4 expression are associated with perineural invasion of prostate cancer (2008)

Zhang, Shiwu, Qi, Lisha, Li, Man, Zhang, Danfang, Xu, Shaoyan, Wang, Ning, ...

Abstract Objective To identify the roles of CXCL12 and CXCR4 and the associated mechanism involved in perineural invasion of prostate cancer. Methods The distribution and expression of CXCL12, CXCR4,...

What If the Model Does Not Tell the Whole Story? The Clock, the Natural Forest and the New Global Studies (2008)

Jacobson, David, Wang, Ning

Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...

What If the Model Does Not Tell the Whole Story? The Clock, the Natural Forest and the New Global Studies (2008)

Jacobson, David, Wang, Ning

Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...

What If the Model Does Not Tell the Whole Story? The Clock, the Natural Forest and the New Global Studies (2008)

Jacobson, David, Wang, Ning

Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...

What If the Model Does Not Tell the Whole Story? The Clock, the Natural Forest and the New Global Studies (2008)

Jacobson, David, Wang, Ning

Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...

The Cotranslational Maturation Program for the Type II Membrane Glycoprotein Influenza Neuraminidase (2008)

Wang, Ning, Glidden, Emily J., Murphy, Stephanie, Pearse, Bradley R., Hebert, Daniel N.

The earliest steps in nascent protein maturation greatly affect its overall efficiency. Constraints placed on maturing proteins at these early stages limit available conformations and help to direct...

Comparison of Mitochondrial Control Region Sequences Between Chelydridae   and Platysternidae   (2008)

Yan, Liang, Zhang, Yan, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Li, Nie, Liu-wang

The sequences of mitochondrial control region (CR) of Macroclemys temminckii   , Chelydra serpentina   and Platysternon megacephalum   were obtained using PCR and sequencing techniques, with...

Chemical stability of ZnO nanostructures in simulated physiological environments and its application in determining polar directions (2008)

Cheng, Chun, Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Yu, Dapeng, Wang, Ning

The in vitro chemical stability and etching of ZnO nanostructures in simulated physiological solution (SPS) were studied using electron microscopy. Calcium hydrogen phosphate thin layers were...

Quasi-elastic scattering and fusion with a modified Woods-Saxon potential (2008)

Wang, Ning, Scheid, Werner

The elastic and large-angle quasi-elastic scattering reactions were studied with the same nucleus-nucleus potential proposed for describing fusion reactions. The elastic scattering angle...

A cell-based reglucosylation assay demonstrates the role of GT1 in the quality control of a maturing glycoprotein (2008)

Pearse, Bradley R., Gabriel, Luke, Wang, Ning, Hebert, Daniel N.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein GT1 (UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase) is the central enzyme that modifies N-linked carbohydrates based upon the properties of the polypeptide...

Integrating Complementary Features from Vocal Source and Vocal Tract for Speaker Identification (2008)

Nengheng Zheng, Tan Lee, Ning Wang, P. C. Ching

This paper describes a speaker identification system that uses complementary acoustic features derived from the vocal source excitation and the vocal tract system. Conventional speaker recognition...

Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones (2008)

Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe

Abstract: Emotional bonds don’t arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores the...

Multicast Routing and (2008)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Scalable sender access control for bi-directional

QUALITY-OF-SERVICE-BASED ROUTING ALGORITHMS FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS Interdomain Routing through QoS-Class Planes (2008)

David Griffin, Jason Spencer, Jonas Griem, Mohamed Boucadair, Pierrick Mor, France Telecom R, ...

This article presents an approach to delivering qualitative end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees across the multiprovider Internet. We propose that bilateral agreements between a number of...

Traffic engineered multicast content delivery without mpls overlay (2008)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Abstract—Multicast traffic engineering (TE) has recently attracted significant attention given the emergence of point-to-multipoint multimedia content delivery over the Internet. Existing multicast...

Environmental production : use of waste materials in cement kilns in China (2008)

Wang, Ning

This report mainly talks about utilizing the cement kiln to dispose wastes. In China, there are huge amounts of wastes can be produced every year. China government pays more attention to the...

Facile synthesis of carbon nanotube/natural bentonite composites as a stable catalyst for styrene synthesis (2008)

Rinaldi, Ali, Zhang, Jian, Mizera, Jan, Girgsdies, Frank, Wang, Ning, Abd Hamid, Sharifah Bee, ...

Natural bentonite mineral, without any wet chemical treatment, was used directly to catalyze the growth of multi-wall CNTs and the produced CNTs/bentonite as an integrated composite stably catalyzed...

Clonal Integration Affects Growth, Photosynthetic Efficiency and Biomass Allocation, but not the Competitive Ability, of the Alien Invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides under Severe Stress (2008)

Wang, Ning, Yu, Fei-Hai, Li, Ping-Xing, He, Wei-Ming, Liu, Feng-Hong, Liu, Ji-Ming, ...

Background and Aims Many notorious alien invasive plants are clonal, but little is known about some roles and aspects of clonal integration. Here, the hypothesis is tested that clonal integration...

Fusion-fission reactions with modified Woods-Saxon potential (2007)

Wang, Ning, Zhao, Kai, Scheid, Werner, Wu, Xizhen

A modified Woods-Saxon potential model is proposed for a unified description of the entrance channel fusion barrier and the fission barrier of fusion-fission reactions based on the Skyrme...

Scalable Support for Source Specific Multicast In Differentiated Services Networks (2007)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou, Konstantina Papantoni

Abstract. In this paper we propose a scalable framework for providing differentiated QoS multicast channels for end users with heterogeneous requirements based on the Source Specific Multicast (SSM)...

Scalable Sender Access Control for Bi-directional Multicast Routing (2007)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Abstract. Bi-directional shared tree is an efficient routing scheme for interactive multicast applications with multiple sources. Given the open-group IP multicast service model, it is important to...

Scalable IP Multicast Sender Access Control for Bidirectional Trees (2007)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Abstract. Bi-directional shared tree is an efficient routing scheme for interactive multicast applications with multiple sources. Given the open-group IP multicast service model, it is important to...

Abstract An overlay framework for provisioning differentiated services in Source Specific Multicast q (2007)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Scalability in QoS-aware multicast deployment has become an important research dimension in recent years. In this paper we propose a new scheme named Differentiated QoS Multicast (DQM) based on the...

A Practical Mobile-Code Format with Linear Verification Effort (2007)

Ning Wang, Michael Franz

We present an abstract machine that encodes both type safety and control safety in an efficient manner and that is suitable as a mobile-code format. At the code consumer, a single linear-complexity...

2.2 Choosing Φ-function Operands................... 4 (2007)

Jeffery Ronne, Ning Wang, Alexander Apel, Michael Franz

Optimizing compilers, including those in virtual machines, commonly utilize Static Single Assignment Form as their intermediate representation, but interpreters typically implement stack-oriented...

Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)

Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...

Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...

Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)

Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...

Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...

Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)

Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...

Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...

Investigations of glycoprotein co-translational maturation in the cell (2007)

Wang, Ning

The earliest steps of nascent protein folding are critical to the overall folding efficiency. Folding events start as soon as the protein is translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, where...

Investigations of glycoprotein co-translational maturation in the cell (2007)

Wang, Ning

The earliest steps of nascent protein folding are critical to the overall folding efficiency. Folding events start as soon as the protein is translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, where...

Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents (2007)

Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward Fast, Robin Duffy

gratch, nwang, gerten, fast at ict.usc.edu Abstract. Recent research has established the potential for virtual characters to establish rapport with humans through simple contingent nonverbal...

Threaded rod continuity system for precast prestressed girder bridges (2006)

Wang, Ning

This dissertation recalls the earlier research on Precast Prestressed Girders Continuity System done at the University of Nebraska and introduces a new design detail by placing Threaded Rod (TR)...

A role of TGF[beta]/BMP in leukemogenesis through interaction between SMAD4 and HOXA9 / (2005)

Wang, Ning Ph.D.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Joint Health Sciences, 2005.

A portable virtual machine target for proof-carrying code (2005)

Michael Franz, Deepak Ch, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermín Reig, Ning Wang

Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...

A portable virtual machine target for proof-carrying code (2005)

Michael Franz, Deepak Ch, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermín Reig, Ning Wang

Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...

Experimental evaluation of polite interaction tactics for pedagogical agents (2005)

Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Richard E. Mayer

Recent research shows that instructors commonly use politeness strategies to achieve affective scaffolding in educational contexts. The importance of affective factors such as self-confidence and...

A Semi-Automated Wizard of Oz Interface for Modeling Tutorial Strategies (2005)

Paola Rizzo, Hyokyeong Lee, Erin Shaw, W. Lewis Johnson, Ning Wang, Richard E. Mayer

Abstract Human teaching strategies are usually inferred from transcripts of face-to-face conversations or computer-mediated dialogs between learner and tutor. However, during natural interactions...

The politeness effect: Pedagogical agents and learning gains (2005)

Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Heather Collins

Abstract. Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations have tended...

Experimental evaluation of polite interaction tactics for pedagogical agents (2005)

Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Richard E. Mayer

Recent research shows that instructors commonly use politeness strategies to achieve affective scaffolding in educational contexts. The importance of affective factors such as self-confidence and...

Rheology of airway smooth muscle cells is associated with cytoskeletal contractile stress (2004)

Dimitrije Stamenovic, Ning Wang, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, I. Titushkin, M. Cho, X. Trepat, ...

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Choosing When to Interact with Learners (2004)

Lei Qu Ning, Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson

In this paper, we describe a method for pedagogical agents to choose when to interact with learners in interactive learning environments. This method is based on observations of human tutors coaching...

On Egress Router Selection for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees (2004)

Kin-hon Ho, Ning Wang, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou, Michael Howarth

Abstract—As the Internet has grown in size and diversity of applications, the next generation is designed to accommodate flows that span over multiple domains with quality of service guarantees,...

Bandwidth constrained IP multicast traffic engineering without MPLS overlay (2004)

Ning Wang, George Pavlou

Abstract. Existing multicast traffic engineering (TE) solutions tend to use explicit routing through MPLS tunnels. In this paper we shift away from this overlay approach and address the bandwidth...

Multi-objective Egress Router Selection Policies for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees (2004)

Kin-hon Ho, Ning Wang, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou

Abstract. The next generation Internet is designed to accommodate flows that span across multiple domains with quality of service guarantees, in particular bandwidth. In this context, destinations...

Pedagogical agents that interact with learners (2004)

Lei Qu, Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson

In this paper, we describe a method for pedagogical agents to choose when to interact with learners in interactive learning environments. This method is based on observations of human tutors coaching...

The design and implementation of a real-time communication module to function within the architectural constraints of an existing Open Source Software (OSS) learning management system (to meet target-user requirements) / (2004)

Wang, Ning.

"This dissertation describes how to build a real time communication module to support a student centred learning environment. It also details the architecture and technologies used to develop the...

CONTENTS i (2003)

Jeffery Ronne, Ning Wang, Alexander Apel, Michael Franz

Optimizing compilers, including those in virtual machines, commonly utilize Static Single Assignment Form as their intermediate representation, but interpreters typically implement stack-oriented...

A Portable Virtual Machine Target for Proof-Carrying Code (2003)

Michael Franz, Deepak Chandra, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermin Reig, Ning Wang

Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...

A Portable Virtual Machine Target for Proof-Carrying Code (2003)

Michael Franz, Deepak Chandra, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermin Reig, Ning Wang

Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...

Interpreting Programs in Static Single Assignment Form (2003)

Jeffery Von Ronne, Ning Wang, Michael Franz

Static Single Assignment Form is a common intermediate representation for optimizing compilers but several of its features are difficult to implement in a traditional imperative interpreter. An...

Coase on the nature of economics (2003)

Wang, Ning

Recent writings on Coase's methodology largely focus on method, at the risk of underappreciating his substantive view of economics. That economics has as its subject matter the working of the real...

Enabling Efficient Program Analysis for Dynamic Optimization of a Family of Safe Mobile Code Formats (2002)

Ning Wang

Modern and likely future architectures require compilers to perform extensive restructuring of programs during optimization. We have been building a system in which JVM bytecode is compiled off-line...

Enabling Efficient Program Analysis for (2002)

Dynamic Optimization Of, Ning Wang, Michael Franz, Niall Dalton

Modern and likely future architectures require compilers to perform extensive restructuring of programs during optimization. We have been building a system in which JVM bytecode is compiled off-line...

Phloem-xylem water flow in developing cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica during sink-to-source transition (1997)

Wang, Ning, Zhang, Hehui, Nobel, Park S.

Phloem versus xylem water and carbon flow between a developing daughter cladode (flattened stem segment) and the underlying basal cladode of Opuntia ficus-indica was assessed using net CO2 uptake,...

Phloem Exudate Collected via Scale Insect Stylets for the CAM Species Opuntia ficus-indica under Current and Doubled CO2 Concentrations (1995)

Wang, Ning, Nobel, Park S.

A method was devised for collecting phloem sap from the CAM species Opuntia ficus-indica using severed stylets of a scale insect (Dactylopius opuntiae), for which exudation could continue for up to 5...

Distribution of perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) during their first year of lifein Lake Constance (1994)

Wang, Ning, Eckmann, Reiner

The distribution and behaviour of larval and juvenile perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) were studied for two years in large, deep Lake Constance. After hatching larvae were transported by water currents...

Water potentials for developing cladodes and fruits of a succulent plant, including xylem-versus-phloem implications for water movement (1994)

Nobel, Park S., Andrade, Jose Luis, Wang, Ning, North, Gretchen B.

Developing cladodes had lower water potentials and developing fruits had higher water potentials than the underlying cladodes of the widely cultivated prickly pear cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica. The...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author analyses oral...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author analyses oral...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author analyses oral...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author...

Towards more effective approaches in teaching oral English to Chinese students in EFL teaching (1984)

Wang, Ning

This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author...

MEASURING TRANSACTION COSTS: DIVERGING APPROACHES, CONTENDING PRACTICES

NING WANG

This paper brings order to the vast conceptual and empirical literature on measuring transaction costs. It critically reviews the broad and diverse landscape of the field of transaction costs...

Rheological Behavior of Living Cells Is Timescale-Dependent

Stamenović, Dimitrije, Rosenblatt, Noah, Montoya-Zavala, Martín, Matthews, Benjamin D., Hu, Shaohua, Suki, Béla, ...

The dynamic mechanical behavior of living cells has been proposed to result from timescale-invariant processes governed by the soft glass rheology theory derived from soft matter physics. But this...

A cell-based reglucosylation assay demonstrates the role of GT1 in the quality control of a maturing glycoprotein

Pearse, Bradley R., Gabriel, Luke, Wang, Ning, Hebert, Daniel N.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein GT1 (UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase) is the central enzyme that modifies N-linked carbohydrates based upon the properties of the polypeptide...

Rapid signal transduction in living cells is a unique feature of mechanotransduction

Na, Sungsoo, Collin, Olivier, Chowdhury, Farhan, Tay, Bernard, Ouyang, Mingxing, Wang, Yingxiao, ...

It is widely postulated that mechanotransduction is initiated at the local force–membrane interface by inducing local conformational changes of proteins, similar to soluble ligand-induced signal...

Testing the importance of the explanatory variables in a mixed geographically weighted regression model

Chang-Lin Mei, Ning Wang, Wen-Xiu Zhang

A mixed geographically weighted regression (MGWR) model is a kind of regression model in which some coefficients of the explanatory variables are constant, but others vary spatially. It is a useful...

Local linear estimation of spatially varying coefficient models: an improvement on the geographically weighted regression technique

Ning Wang, Chang-Lin Mei, Xiao-Dong Yan

Geographically weighted regression (GWR), as a useful method for exploring spatial nonstationarity of a regression relationship, has been applied to a variety of areas. In this method a spatially...

Bear bile: dilemma of traditional medicinal use and animal protection

Feng, Yibin, Siu, Kayu, Wang, Ning, Ng, Kwan-Ming, Tsao, Sai-Wah, Nagamatsu, Tadashi, ...

Bear bile has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. Modern investigations showed that it has a wide range of pharmacological actions with little toxicological side...

Extraordinarily thick-boned fish linked to the aridification of the Qaidam Basin (northern Tibetan Plateau)

Chang, Meemann, Wang, Xiaoming, Liu, Huanzhang, Miao, Desui, Zhao, Quanhong, Wu, Guoxuan, ...

Scattered with numerous salt lakes and ≈2,700–3,200 m above sea level, the giant Qaidam inland basin on the northern Tibetan Plateau has experienced continuing aridification since the beginning...

Do Biophysical Properties of the Airway Smooth Muscle in Culture Predict Airway Hyperresponsiveness?

An, Steven S., Fabry, Ben, Trepat, Xavier, Wang, Ning, Fredberg, Jeffrey J.

Airway hyperresponsiveness is a cardinal feature of asthma but remains largely unexplained. In asthma, the key end-effector of acute airway narrowing is the airway smooth muscle (ASM) cell. Here we...

Intermittent hypoxia degrades HIF-2α via calpains resulting in oxidative stress: Implications for recurrent apnea-induced morbidities

Nanduri, Jayasri, Wang, Ning, Yuan, Guoxiang, Khan, Shakil A., Souvannakitti, Dangjai, Peng, Ying-Jie, ...

Intermittent hypoxia (IH) occurs in many pathological conditions including recurrent apneas. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) 1 and 2 mediate transcriptional responses to low O2. A previous study...

Adult intussusception: A retrospective review of 41 cases

Wang, Ning, Cui, Xing-Yu, Liu, Yu, Long, Jin, Xu, Yuan-Hong, Guo, Ren-Xuan, ...

AIM: To optimize the preoperative diagnosis and surgical management of adult intussusception (AI).

Superconducting characteristics of 4-Å carbon nanotube–zeolite composite

Lortz, Rolf, Zhang, Qiucen, Shi, Wu, Ye, Jian Ting, Qiu, Chunyin, Wang, Zhe, ...

We have fabricated nanocomposites consisting of 4-Å carbon nanotubes embedded in the 0.7-nm pores of aluminophosphate-five (AFI) zeolite that display a superconducting specific heat transition at...

Rapid Activation of Rac GTPase in Living Cells by Force Is Independent of Src

Poh, Yeh-Chuin, Na, Sungsoo, Chowdhury, Farhan, Ouyang, Mingxing, Wang, Yingxiao, Wang, Ning

It is well known that mechanical forces are crucial in regulating functions of every tissue and organ in a human body. However, it remains unclear how mechanical forces are transduced into...